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1. The salary is indeed quite good for southern Taiwan, but raises tend to come slowly.
2. The head office is located near the Dome, so there are plenty of good places to eat.
3. Relationships among colleagues are not too stiff, and direct supervisors are friendly and willing to teach their subordinates.
1. Non-counter staff are required to work at the counter (the company says that all employees must do so, but in fact that is not the case). If, for personal reasons, you have to work overtime on scheduled days off, the company does not pay the corresponding overtime wages. Instead, it insists on providing only compensatory leave and requires you to sign a consent form. (I held an internal position with a two-day weekend.)
2. Meal expenses should be provided for business trips, but this is not communicated in advance. You are only told that you can apply for reimbursement after you ask.
3. There are factions among upper-level staff (at the managerial level), with power concentrated in a particular group. Matters that should, in principle, be approved only after professional discussion are often reviewed by supervisors whose expertise is unrelated to the subject.
4. Job duties are reassigned or changed arbitrarily without discussion. Even after expressing your refusal to upper management, they still insist on doing things their own way. Unless you put up strong resistance, upper management will ignore you. Even if you do resist, there is a very high chance that the only response you will receive is something like: “Then you can consider changing jobs.”
5. The expected work style is extremely efficiency-driven. For example, they may give you something in the morning and suddenly ask to see it that afternoon, in which case you are expected to produce it immediately. Upper management does not accept that the task may require more time (because several tasks may be in progress at the same time), and believes that if you can produce it only after your supervisor presses you, it means you were “slacking off and not working.”
6. During an interview, I overheard managers referring to a woman who was about to be interviewed as one of the candidates for the “harem selection.”
7. Factional infighting is far too obvious. Certain people have significantly more influence than others in the same position, so even when there are dissenting opinions, it is impossible to raise them effectively.
8. Some supervisors speak extremely crudely and frequently use profanity. There have also been instances of verbal abuse, causing the workplace atmosphere to become very tense and dispiriting.